Dylan Tan Industrial Designer & Product Manager

Project 15 of 36

SD v2.1 Explorations

Year
2023
Discipline
AI / Concept
Tools
Stable Diffusion 2.1, Blender
Images
19

Surface-level exploration of Stable Diffusion v2.1 through Blender, as an entry into the tools available for SD while testing hardware limitations.

Curiosities about living through those worlds we imagined as children watching cartoons like Laputa, Evangelion, Akira, etc.

Overview

Workflow

Stable Diffusion 2.1 driven through Blender, as an entry into the tools available for SD.

Inspiration

The worlds of Laputa, Evangelion and Akira.

Hardware

A test of what local hardware could handle.

Design language

Worlds remembered from childhood cartoons, rebuilt with an early diffusion model.

Form

Organic towers, mushroom-like structures and floating megaforms.

Reference

The worlds of Laputa, Evangelion and Akira.

Color

Saturated, painterly palettes of teal skies and warm stone.

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